Thinking about the recent discussions of ableism on Feministing, I decided to start going back and transcribing video posts if nobody else already had and posting the transcript in the comments. It's actually bothered me for awhile that not all video posts have transcripts, and I'm sorry I didn't do something sooner. (I have a lot of free time and I know I'm probably the exception in that way in this community.) I noticed then that you can't leave comments on posts that are over a week old.
Do y'all think it's worth transcribing video posts that are a week or more old? I know when I was new to Feministing I read a lot of back entries, and I still sometimes look back to reference something. Can you think of any other ways this could be done other than a community member leaving the transcript in a comment? Maybe emailing mods the transcripts and having them add it to the main post? I'm not sure.
P.S. When selecting a category for this post I didn't see any about disability rights or issues, which was unexpected.
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That would be amazing M_K! If you email us the transcripts of outside videos, we will definitely post them--even on week old posts. thanks so much for being proactive and helping us with our capacity issue.
Oh great! Thanks so much.
I for one would very much appreciate it. In my case it's because I don't have access to audio and my connection is very slow, but I also have trouble hearing well. All videos that get posted online should automatically have subtitle features. I don't know why they don't. My television has it and most do now.